Leslie Katz – CNet.com
Thousands of rabbis walk into a conference with a selfie stick…
Sound like the setup of a joke? It’s what happened Sunday when a group of rabbis gathered for an annual meeting in New York and snapped a giant selfie — the world’s biggest, they claim.
Some 2,000 rabbis appear in the photo, taken at this weekend’s International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries, the annual gathering of Lubavitcher rabbis that this year drew 4,200 from around the world.
Every year since 1983, rabbis attending the conference have gathered for a group shot, but this year the traditional picture got a few techy twists.
Two rabbis held up a 30-foot Nodal Ninja boom extended to 15 feet, clearly not the sort of selfie stick the average selfie-loving rabbi tosses in a backpack. They stuck a Canon EOS 5D Mark 3 dSLR camera with a wide-angle lens at the end, and got to snapping the sea of rabbis standing on risers in front of a Crown Heights building.
Local photographer Chaim Perl helped compose the shot, and Chabad coordinated it, at least in part, through WhatsApp and Twitter. The organization even set aloft a remote-operated quadcopter drone to take an aerial picture of the group shot. Divine intervention may or may not have been involved.
Way to go Mottel
Rabbi Shishler… AWESOME Shliach!!!!!
selfie means it was taken by yourself as apposed to someone else taking a picture of you. you can have a group selfie.
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i spy rabbi shishler!!
Will this go in the Guiness world records ?
Was it a fisheye or something else ?
Cool! That is pretty awesome!!